I liked that their album was soft without being wimpy. Liked the variety of voices/writing. My brother and I used to fight about music but we both enjoyed this record; my mom loved the wispy, romantic "Oh Daddy," an often overlooked track.

My mom is very old now and my brother is no longer with us, but when I hear those songs I think back to summer in our ramshackle but comfortable old house, with that album playing everywhere.

by Anonymous

reply 4

05/06/2011

I remember learning that Mick Fleetwood was bi and may have slept with Lindsay Buckingham. Very hot thought for a young teenage gay.

by Anonymous

reply 5

05/06/2011

I like that #4. Nice memories. A little sad too.

by Anonymous

reply 6

05/06/2011

I wasn't born then, so I guess I heard it on classic rock radio, but the song Dreams brings me back to the afternoon when a neighborhood boy and I sucked each other off 3 times in his bedroom.

by Anonymous

reply 7

05/06/2011

Wonderful. Had to buy it after seeing Glee. Roommates and such always had a copy & I didn't. Do now!

by Anonymous

reply 8

05/06/2011

I understand Rumours is #2 on iTunes now... Nice to see a younger generation discover REAL music...

by Anonymous

reply 9

05/06/2011

I was about ten years old when Rumours came out. My older sister and my aunt were both about 5 years old and played the album constantly. The songs remind me of them wearing the disco looking dresses for prom and it also makes me think of weekends at the beach. Way back when I didn't have bills to pay and heartaches to get over. Styx, Queen, ELO, Linda Ronstadt and even Nick Gilder all have that effect on me.

by Anonymous

reply 10

05/06/2011

I had a serious girl-crush on Christine McVie. (Actually I still do!) I loved that her maiden name was Christine Perfect.

Yeah, I liked Christine too, seemed more level-headed than Stevie & had the British accent...& the thrilling, low-pitched voice.

by Anonymous

reply 13

05/07/2011

I never got what people saw in Stevie she looks dirty.

by Anonymous

reply 14

05/07/2011

Every song was so good on that album. There was no filler in it. It just brings back lovely memories of my youth.

by Anonymous

reply 15

05/07/2011

I got my Rumors album free from a radio station promotion.

by Anonymous

reply 16

05/07/2011

Billy Joel's The Stranger.

by Anonymous

reply 17

05/07/2011

Those were the days.

by Anonymous

reply 18

05/07/2011

I was a senior in high school and had the 8 track... Smoked copious amounts of weed while listening to it. Lots of parties and sex, too.

by Anonymous

reply 19

05/07/2011

"The doctor said 'Stevie, if you do cocaine one more time, you will destroy your nose'. So I had my assistant start blowing cocaine up my butt with a straw."

by Anonymous

reply 20

05/07/2011

tell us about the sex r19

by Anonymous

reply 21

05/07/2011

All I remember thinking is, "Jesus Christ, the Sex Pistols album is out, the Clash album is out and all they play on the radio is this stuff that is comforting to the baby boomers who have such a vice grip on programming they will NEVER let go."

by Anonymous

reply 22

05/07/2011

You should have bought a radio that allowed you to change the station.

by Anonymous

reply 23

05/07/2011

Most of the young people in 1977 that bought that album were still part of the baby boomer generation, born before 1965. More young people liked Fleetwood Mac than The Sex Pistols or the Clash.

by Anonymous

reply 24

05/07/2011

The hot vinyl seats of my mother's yellow hatchback Honda that felt so good on my bare legs after swimming lessons.

by Anonymous

reply 25

05/07/2011

Why did they use the British spelling of the word as opposed to the American spelling? The same goes for Chicago's "Colour My World"... did the American spelling take precedence over the British spelling of words AFTER the '70s?

by Anonymous

reply 26

05/07/2011

The two Brits in the band called the shots.

by Anonymous

reply 27

05/07/2011

It was played over and over and over again in college. (Along with Carole King's Tapestry.)%0D %0D Punk hit hard (though not with many people at my college)---it was such a relief.

by Anonymous

reply 28

05/07/2011

I was five years old when Rumours came out. My boomer folks bought the LP and it got a lot of play around our house for the next few years. I remember my mom would play 'Go Your Own Way' over and over. Then when I was about 16 I rediscovered Fleetwood Mac, bought Rumours on CD and they've been a favorite ever since.

Second Hand News - One of the album's underrated tracks, if that's possible. Predicted the direction of Buckingham's songwriting which grew in interesting if somewhat eccentric directions post-Rumours. Won't ya lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff.

Dreams - And off this album lifts into the stratosphere. The song that created "Stevie Nicks, rock goddess."

Never Going Back Again - Nice small track. But it's my partner's favorite Mac song of all of them, so it just goes to show ... something.

Don't Stop - The album's most overexposed song, thanks to Bill Clinton. Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years just since that happened!!

Go Your Own Way - Buckingham answers "Dreams." Utter perfection. Best track on the album, best classic rock song of all time?

Songbird - Pretty, but a little self-indulgent. But then it was the late 70s.

The Chain - The moment where the music drops, John McVie keeps playing his bass riff and then the guitar, drums and vocals kick back in is just pure transcendence.

You Make Loving Fun - This song is surprisingly fun to dance to. A highlight.

I Don't Want to Know - Another underrated track. Nicks having fun.

Oh Daddy - Great late-night song.

Gold Dust Woman - And the album collapses into beautiful decadence.

by Anonymous

reply 29

05/07/2011

"Nice to see a younger generation discover REAL music... "%0D %0D Oh, for chrissakes - you do know you do nothing to advance your "cause" by saying things like this, right? Think back - WAY back - to when you were young and your parents/older people would say condescending things like this to you. Remember how you felt? Well, now that's you. EVERY generation thinks their music/pop culture was the best. And, funnily enough, they're all correct. Because it's a subjective experience.

by Anonymous

reply 30

05/07/2011

Nice analysis R29. You Make Loving Fun had some of that disco feel to it from the time.

by Anonymous

reply 31

05/07/2011

My memory: Being so fucking sick of hearing those songs.

by Anonymous

reply 32

05/07/2011

R30 thinks a lecture changes people. What an idiot.

by Anonymous

reply 33

05/07/2011

"Go Your Own Way" is one of the best rock songs of all time. I love how he sticks it to Stevie: "packin' up, shackin' up's all you wanna do."

by Anonymous

reply 34

05/07/2011

Yes, loved the songs but they were overplayed at the time.

by Anonymous

reply 35

05/07/2011

[quote]All I remember thinking is, "Jesus Christ, the Sex Pistols album is out, the Clash album is out and all they play on the radio is this stuff that is comforting to the baby boomers who have such a vice grip on programming they will NEVER let go."

I was in London in 1977 and Capital Radio was playing a lot of Sex Pistols. CBS Records initially refused to release The Clash in the US because it was not "radio friendly."

Am I the only one that thinks the double album follow-up, TUSK, is better? It is pretty impressive overall and much more musically adventurous than RUMOURS, especially "Tusk".

by Anonymous

reply 38

05/07/2011

I love "Tusk" (the song). Don't remember much of the rest of that album.

by Anonymous

reply 39

05/07/2011

r38 Yes. Tusk is a bloated, pretentious piece of cocaine fueled crap.

by Anonymous

reply 40

05/07/2011

[quote]Am I the only one that thinks the double album follow-up, TUSK, is better?

No.

by Anonymous

reply 41

05/07/2011

I've been playing The Chain over and over since watching Glee. What a great song.

by Anonymous

reply 42

05/07/2011

My Step-father was obsessed with this Album and Stevie Nicks, that is how I know who OP is talking about.

by Anonymous

reply 43

05/07/2011

Stevie, Stevie, Stevie!

I was the real female talent in FM.

by Anonymous

reply 44

05/07/2011

No, r38. That's actually a very popular opinion.

by Anonymous

reply 45

05/07/2011

Rumours is pretty much perfection. Tusk has moments of great brilliance but is too sprawling, weird and unfocused to be considered "better" in any honest sense.

by Anonymous

reply 46

05/07/2011

The album is still number 3 on i tunes. Pretty amazing.

by Anonymous

reply 47

05/07/2011

Were the songs murdered on "Glee"?

by Anonymous

reply 48

05/07/2011

Just drugs are all, r109.

I thought Glee handled the songs well and with respect, worth watching. As much as I can't stand Kristin Chenoweth I like her flawed self on Glee.

by Anonymous

reply 49

05/07/2011

Good lord, look at Christine McVie's makeup in this video at 37 seconds in.

Does she harbor any ill will towards Stevie Nicks for being so much prettier?

by Anonymous

reply 50

05/07/2011

Listening to the album again after years I'm liking "The Chain" best; great song.

by Anonymous

reply 51

05/07/2011

I prefer the original Fleetwood Mac, the British blues band, with Peter Green on lead guitar.

btw, Peter wrote "Black Magic Woman", which was a big hit for Santana.

I never got the Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham version of this band, the Mac were essentially a new band. They certainly were no longer a blues band.

I always thought Mick Fleetwood and John McVie simply should have changed the name of their band when Stevie and Lindsey joined.

Christine McVie also had her own band before she joined the most successful version of Fleetwood Mac.

by Anonymous

reply 52

05/07/2011

Buckingham Nicks' debut album had some great singles on it. I wonder what Lindsey and Stevie would have created had they not joined FM.

by Anonymous

reply 53

05/07/2011

Frottage in my living room, before I even knew what it was called.

by Anonymous

reply 54

05/07/2011

I love that this was Fleetwood Mac's eleventh album!

by Anonymous

reply 55

05/09/2011

Major part of college life when I was a sophomore along with Songs in the Key of Life and Station to Station. But fast forward about 6 years to 6 am at the Saint and the DJ went from Tina Turner's version of Let's Stay Together into Stevie doing Dreams and it was epic. I remember at one point turning around while dancing (or whatever you call moving to morning music) and catching the eye of one of the other dancers who was having the same connection with the song that I was. There was a look of shared recognition that passed between us and I had that whole Dancer From the Dance moment. It was pretty damn amzing and at age 54 remains as vivid as if it were yesterday.

In 8th grade in 1977/8 I had a classmate, who was a girl I was simultaneously in awe and terrified of. She was a badass, talked back to teachers, constantly got caught smoking in the bathroom, etc.%0D %0D In gym class one day, during our "Jazzercise" track in phys ed, the teacher put on "Go Your Own Way" and for the first time that year I saw pure joy and happiness on that girl's face. She was singing along with abandon and no sense of self-consciousness as we were doing our knee lift kicks. It was just one of those little moments that stayed with me always.

by Anonymous

reply 59

05/09/2011

Lindsay Buckingham nude in a pool with a guitar:

by Anonymous

reply 60

05/09/2011

First album I ever bought.

by Anonymous

reply 61

05/09/2011

Any DL insiders know if Lindsey and Christine ever had an affair during the Tango In the Night era? It's a "rumour" that's floated around in Fleetwood Macdom for many years, but if you come right out and try to discuss it, a lot of fans start freaking out.

It seems like the two of them single handedly made Tango, even though I know a lot of LB's work on it was re-purposed from a scrapped solo album. By their own admission, it was basically L & C up at L's studio working on the whole thing. Mick and John came in to record their parts, and Stevie swanned in after a solo tour with a few songs that they haphazardly inserted into the record.

I always thought that something may have been building after Lindsey played on Christine's 1984 solo album.

After Say You Will came out, it seemed like there was animosity between the two of them. Lindsey didn't have very many nice things to say about Christine, despite at one time basically calling her his musical soul mate:

"She and I have a real valid kind of rapport between us, something that was there before we even met. It%E2%80%99s like she can play the piano and I can play the guitar just wonderfully along with her. It%E2%80%99s almost like parallel lines during our formative years of music until we met, and it gave us a lot of common ground"

by Anonymous

reply 62

05/09/2011

It was the first album I bought with my own money, too. About seven dollars out of my $20/month allowance. I was 8. Thanks to my sister, by the next summer I acquired Hotel California, Supertramp's Breakfast in America, and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. I was the 70s tween.

by Anonymous

reply 63

05/09/2011

A few years ago, VH1 had a special on them reuniting for a new album. They still drove each other crazy. Lindsay is an egotistical jerk who thought it should be a double album even though Stevie said their fans didn't really buy music anymore and would splash out the money for that. Stevie was all kind of awesome with her talismans for the studio. She really seemed to be smart about the music business.

by Anonymous

reply 64

05/09/2011

Oh Christ, the album that never seemed to die.

Got sick of it fast.

by Anonymous

reply 65

05/09/2011

LIndsey at him most gorgeous circa 1992. As wierd as he was.

by Anonymous

reply 66

05/10/2011

"Oh Christ, the album that never seemed to die."%0D %0D It's back... number 11 on the Billboard album chart.%0D %0D

by Anonymous

reply 67

05/13/2011

Reminds me of coke, disco and my first 12 boyfriends.

by Anonymous

reply 68

05/30/2011

I think the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album with Stevie's Rhiannon and Landslide was even better.

by Anonymous

reply 69

08/31/2011

[quote]We had ABBA in the UK, they were much better.

Don't be silly. The Kick Inside came out in 1978.

by Anonymous

reply 70

08/31/2011

I LOVE this album.

by Anonymous

reply 71

08/31/2011

[quote]Why did they use the British spelling of the word as opposed to the American spelling?%0D %0D Maybe because three of the five band members were British??

by Anonymous

reply 72

08/31/2011

Me a teen boy looking dreamy-eyed at Stevie Nicks, not knowing whether I wanted to fuck her or be her.%0D %0D

by Anonymous

reply 73

08/31/2011

Take your silver spoon and dig your grave.

by Anonymous

reply 74

08/31/2011

Indeed, R72. And one of the Yanks was named Buckingham and the other was very proud of her Welsh backgound.%0D %0D I bought Rumours in spite of the fact that my tastes ran towards prog and other "difficult" music. I'd tested my stoner friends patience with that, and then my early adoption of Patti Smith and Blondie. I did it as an act of teenage schoolyard diplomacy. It was either "Rumours", or Kiss.%0D %0D I did end up loving the record, it sounded perfect over the AM radio in the only ride I had access to, my least-best friend's yellow AMC Gremlin with three-on-the tree. Good times, if not great cars.

by Anonymous

reply 75

08/31/2011

Don't get me wrong, I really like Rumors, but it's not as great as I remembered.

by Anonymous

reply 76

08/31/2011

Well I'd like ta hear ya try and make a disc of yer own, lovey! Now toss off!

by Anonymous

reply 77

08/31/2011

Not the biggest FM fan, but r59 's post put such a big smile on my face. Reminded me why I love rock music so fucking much. Thanks.

by Anonymous

reply 78

08/31/2011

First memory that comes to mind is church camp, smoking dope and listening to Rumors...

by Anonymous

reply 79

08/31/2011

I like the energy and excitement of Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Ramones.

I also like the pure songcraft and yearning emotionalism of Fleetwood Mac.

Both are good. There is room for both.

by Anonymous

reply 81

08/31/2011

The Clash influenced Tusk, or at least LB's songs.

by Anonymous

reply 82

08/31/2011

Camper Van Beethoven recreated Tusk, note for note

by Anonymous

reply 83

08/31/2011

R82, how on earth did you arrive at that?%0D %0D The Clash wrote politically charged punk, and were disciples of the Sex Pistols. Lindsey snorted coke and wrote very clever hooks on his guitar dedicated to Stevie.

by Anonymous

reply 84

08/31/2011

What was The Spinners song that inspired "Dreams"? Stevie said she based it on one of their hits.

by Anonymous

reply 85

08/31/2011

Probably "I'll Be Around".

by Anonymous

reply 86

08/31/2011

R84: It's detailed in Storms, the book Lindsey's ex wrote about FM. Lindsey wanted to go in different directions after Rumours, and was consciously thinking about The Clash when writing his material for Tusk.

by Anonymous

reply 87

08/31/2011

I was into Olivia Newton-John at the time, and thought that Fleetwood Mac were a bunch of junkies who sang some good songs.

by Anonymous

reply 88

08/31/2011

r9, real music still exists, it's just independent. You have to know where to look, because it's not going to find you on FM radio.

I'm a 30-year-old indie music snob. Fleetwood Mac is one of my favorite bands of all time. "Rumours" is perfection.

Their 2003 album, "Say You Will," had some decent tracks on it, for any fans who didn't look into it.

by Anonymous

reply 89

08/31/2011

This album is brilliant and there is no music like this today.

by Anonymous

reply 90

09/01/2011

Rumours was just re released with tons of outakes and shows very different versions of songs. "The Chain" came from three different songs of each of them that was sewed together. I posted Stevie's demo of The Chain. Very different and you can see they just took the chorus from her part of it. Pretty cool to see who things evolved.

by Anonymous

reply 91

01/29/2013

[quote]You have to know where to look, because it's not going to find you on FM radio.

The quest may enliven you, but when we were your age, all we had to do was turn on the radio for good music.

by Anonymous

reply 92

01/30/2013

R88, you actually admit to that in public? (The ONJ part, that is.)

by Anonymous

reply 93

01/30/2013

I remember that summer driving around and Dreams and Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way were in constant rotation on the radio. Fast forward a few years and it was 7 am at The Saint and in the midst of the Morning Music set he dropped Dreams and it was one of those magical dance floor moments when everyone was connected with the memory of where they were when they first heard that song. I am 55 now and it is such an indelible moment in time. I may forget where I put my keys but I will never forget that.

by Anonymous

reply 94

01/30/2013

First time I heard "Dreams" I thought Stevie sounded like Bonnie Raitt...! I also like the predecessor simply titled "Fleetwood Mac" - has some great songs like "Blue Letter" which I wish I had a copy of.

by Anonymous

reply 95

01/30/2013

I knew all of them. I served them at a store I used to work at and have many intimate details and stories about all of them. You know, because we got really close.

by Anonymous

reply 96

01/30/2013

Ditto to all of those of you who were crushing on Lindsey Buckingham.

I can recall playing Rumors into the ground until I became distracted by Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams album, which is the album that finally ended Rumors' 31 week reign at the top of the charts.

by Anonymous

reply 97

01/30/2013

Was one of the very first ablums I bought with my own money, along with the Original Broadway Cast Recoding of Annie. Was driven to Korvette's with my older sister in her bff's red Camaro. I remember thinking how beautiful LB & SN were.

By the way R93, you are a tool.

by Anonymous

reply 98

01/30/2013

A direct ripoff of a Jimmie Spheeris album cover, R60.

by Anonymous

reply 99

01/30/2013

Lots of options for the expanded/deluxe editions of the 35th Anniversary version of RUMOURS.

by Anonymous

reply 100

01/30/2013

Best price for 3CD expanded version of the 35th Anniversary edition of RUMOURS on 1/30/13 @ amazon.

by Anonymous

reply 101

01/30/2013

That's an older re release. R101 There is a new one with a lot more stuff that was released a few days ago.

by Anonymous

reply 102

01/30/2013

Really, r102? Amazon lists the release date as January 29, 2013, and quite a few reviews were posted this month (see link).

I'll be very disappointed if this isn't a new release.

by Anonymous

reply 103

01/30/2013

My kid goes to Brentwood School. Same grade as Lindsey's kid.. a few same classes,same football team etc. Lidnesy kid is a self proclaimed "MUFF CABBAGE" say no more.. his profile is public... mostly photos of my daughter's photo from our driveway... dickhead asshole

by Anonymous

reply 104

01/30/2013

Wait r104 -- what?

by Anonymous

reply 105

01/30/2013

I own Rumors but never listen to it. Like The Eagles, they're one of,those 70s artists that you can hear enough on the radio to have to play on the stereo.

by Anonymous

reply 106

01/30/2013

Murray: When you're in a band, you don't get with your bandmate's girlfriend - past or present. Jemaine: Yes, well thanks for that. Murray: You get a love triangle - you know? Fleetwood Mac situation. Murray: Well there there was four of them, so more of a love square. But you know, no one gets on. Jemaine: Okay, I see. Murray: Mind you, they did make some of their best music back then. Bret: Rumours. Murray: No, that's all true.

by Anonymous

reply 107

01/31/2013

iTunes just released a Deluxe Expanded Edition. It's expensive, but worth it.

by Anonymous

reply 108

01/31/2013

Tusk was better. Seriously. Great songwriting by McVie, Buckingham, Nicks, and some great weird shit amongst the more traditional songs.

But, Rumors is great.

by Anonymous

reply 109

01/31/2013

I've been listening to Tango in the Night lately and it's an excellent companion to Rumours. Quite underrated.

by Anonymous

reply 110

01/31/2013

I like their next album "Tusk" too. It's a double album with lots of good songs like "Sara". What did people think of it when it came out?

by Anonymous

reply 111

01/31/2013

R108 When your computer dies, what happens to the music you bought on iTunes (or any digital download)? Do they let you download another copy?

by Anonymous

reply 112

01/31/2013

R111, with the exception of "Sara," I didn't much like Tusk when I first heard it in 1979. In fact, it wasn't until I bought a new turntable in 1997 that I really listened to it much at all. Now it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

by Anonymous

reply 113

01/31/2013

r111 -- people liked Tusk, but it was no Rumours.

Camper Van Beethoven loved Tusk and did a note by note matched rendition of it about ten years ago.

by Anonymous

reply 114

01/31/2013

The new FX show, The Americans, used Tusk (the single) to great effect on it's premiere episode last night.

by Anonymous

reply 115

01/31/2013

[quote]The first US album to have 4 top ten hits according to Billboard

Maybe so but we had three NUMBER ONES in the same album before anybody did.

by Anonymous

reply 116

01/31/2013

We were proud that they used the USC Marching band for the title song.

by Anonymous

reply 117

01/31/2013

Poor kids today -- they have to go digging for their good music -- we only had to turn on the radio for a start. Any digging we did came with the help of myriad excellent music mags and writers.

by Anonymous

reply 118

01/31/2013

Christine Perfect McVie

by Anonymous

reply 119

02/01/2013

Stevie will be at Fantasy Springs Casino this weekend.

WooHoo

by Anonymous

reply 120

03/01/2013

Don't tell me that you love me.

by Anonymous

reply 121

03/01/2013

R112 Your purchased downloads stay in the iTunes cloud (or whatever it is) and you can re-download them on whatever computer is permitted for the account. I only found this out recently, I fucking hate iTunes.

by Anonymous

reply 122

04/14/2013

Why would anyone use iTunes? They completely bamboozled people by dint of being the first.

by Anonymous

reply 123

04/14/2013

Anyway back on topic there was a great documentary on Fleetwood Mac with an empasis on Rumours that I saw on BBC4 recently.

I do have to say I was shocked by Lindsey Buckingham. I won't say "he pinged" but he had a distinct gay vibe to him. Like one of those gay-seeming straight guys.

There's a couple of threads about him and the 2010 one mentions rumours about him being bisexual. He was hot for sure. In the programme "Big Love" was mentioned as being autobiographical; how he had become bitter and jaded with love and was avoiding it after all the problems it gave him but he finally found the real thing with his wife and kids later on.

I would love to see them but as legends they of course cost a fortune. But no Christine is a bit of dealbreaker. She was the star of Rumours for me.

by Anonymous

reply 124

04/14/2013

My mom bought it for me when I was 10. One of our elderly neighbors saw us at the mall after we got it and, upon seeing the back cover, said, "They look like demons!"

by Anonymous

reply 125

04/14/2013

On the videos of the Tusk documentary on youtube, a lot of the comments remark about how gay Lindsey seems.

I personally don't think that he is; I think he has genuinely been obsessed with Stevie for 40 years, but I can see why he pings for a lot of people.

by Anonymous

reply 126

04/14/2013

Also, he and Stevie were still fucking while he was dating his now-wife and continued doing so even after she got pregnant and had their first kid. So I highly doubt that about her finally being the real thing.

by Anonymous

reply 127

04/14/2013

Lindsey is hot.

by Anonymous

reply 128

04/14/2013

What? Dish, r127.

by Anonymous

reply 129

04/14/2013

r129 It was pretty much common knowledge among hardcore FM fans at the time of the Dance tour, then they were seen by several people (as a couple) on her Enchanted tour the next year. At the time, people didn't know this other girl existed, much less was pregnant until the kid was born, so it didn't seem out of the ordinary or scandalous or anything. It just was. There was also a lot of talk at the time about someone in the Buckingham Nicks social circle (maybe Ken Caillat?) talking about how Lindsey was pissed that the ex/gf was pregnant.

Oh, and then Stevie ended up writing Fall From Grace (on Shangri La) and Thrown Down (on Say You Will), which she's revealed enough about for those who were paying attention back then to connect the dots.

On the documentary thing they did for the Say You Will record, there's even a part where he's saying to her (about Thrown Down) like, "Well who are you talking to [ in the song ]?" and she snaps at him, "I'm talking to YOU!" It was kind of funny.

by Anonymous

reply 130

04/14/2013

The first time I heard the whole album was at Misty and Melody's birthday slumber party-- they were twins from Texas and this was in San BErnardino, California. I was in 7th grade. Misty and Melody's parents let them drink, and they purchased for us kids a case of Boonesfarm Strawberry Hill, while they retired upstairs for the evening.

I was the only boy at the party. Andrea, a chubby blond from the condo complex hit on me while we were drinking and listening to Rumours. Next thing, the lights are out and Andrea and I are in the sleeping bag. She brought my hand down to her vagina. I was fingering about and quite drunk and felt just kind of obligated. Since I didn't know what I was doing in these parts my fingers apparently wound up in her anus. (I didn't find this out until the next day.) I woke up later and the twins told me she went upstairs and was angry. Later, she told me I had been rough and put my fingers up her butthole. She said that she asked me to stop but I didn't remember that.

So, that, for me, is "Rumours". The next morning was actually MY birthday and I had to ride out with my mom--very hungover and head-ached-- to Magic Mountain for my birthday treat.

by Anonymous

reply 131

04/15/2013

Ooh interesting, R127. Now that you mention it, although that was given as the official version of events in the documentary, a lot is focussed on the Buckingham/Nicks love affair and you see them talking about it. At the end they're shown singing together which I suppose implies it never really ended.

By the way, how good is the Buckingham/Nicks album? I'd read it was really good but presumably a lot is recycled for Fleetwood.

by Anonymous

reply 132

04/15/2013

Talking Heads - 77

Television – Marquee Moon

Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation

Blondie – Plastic Letters

The Clash – The Clash

Iggy Pop – Lust For Life

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols‘

by Anonymous

reply 133

04/15/2013

r124/132 That sounds about right. Even back during the 97 tour, in public Stevie was saying "Over my dead body" that they'd get back together (he was like "Mayyyybe, we'll see"), AS they were already banging again. And Lindsey was pretty adamant during the SYW press that he was SO over her, and that his Say Goodbye song represented that, and now he's already doing his version of backtracking ("well we were really pissed at each other when I wrote that. Things are a lot better between us now..."). I used to wonder what the now-wife really thought her life was going to be like by venturing into the middle of this never-ending affair/soap opera.

Buckingham Nicks is pretty good! It's a jangly-folky little thing, very catchy. If you like the sound of FM songs like Monday Morning, Never Going Back Again, Landslide, Second Hand News, etc. then you'll like Buckingham Nicks. It's unmistakably the foundation of what the band became when Stevie and Lindsey joined. The little instrumental tune, Stephanie, is very pretty and sweet. I have a sneaking suspicion that the composer of the Winnie Cooper Theme on the Wonder Years television show ripped off Lindsey's Stephanie.

by Anonymous

reply 134

04/16/2013

High school in California, 1977. Everyone smoked pot at lunch, even the teachers, so afternoons were very mellow.

by Anonymous

reply 135

04/16/2013

I read Lidnsey's girlfriend's book and she claims he was abusive.I'll kick a woman's ass if she attacks me but if I saw Lindsey attack her or choke her,I'd kick his ass!!Also Mick Fleetwood had an affair with Stevie Nicks not Lindsey Buckingham.Bob Welch was stupid to leave that group.Rest his soul. FM are performing in my area on May 2.I'm debating if I can afford to go.

by Anonymous

reply 136

04/16/2013

It was one of my first records. It was seven dollars and I bought it at the store with my allowance. I listened to it nonstop for the next year. I was eight.

by Anonymous

reply 137

04/16/2013

The band is dropping an EP in a few days. Heard one of the new songs (Sad Angel) and it's really good.

by Anonymous

reply 138

04/16/2013

Did any of you read that Rolling Stone Q&A that Lindsey and Stevie did a few months ago? It's like watching your parents fight and put you in the middle. It's quite something! Especially the Lindsey portion of the interview. He really felt like venting to a therapist the day it was conducted, I guess.

Here's a link.

by Anonymous

reply 139

04/16/2013

[quote]This album is brilliant and there is no music like this today.

Pretty much true, but the girl group Haim have been getting a lot of Fleetwood comparisons. And rightfully so, they're Rumours calibre even.

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